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Re: The real question is...
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DARN <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 27 Dec 2015 19:25:20 -0700
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Hi Randy et al:

I have always wondered who gets to decide what is right and wrong in English 
usage. George Bernard Shaw, for example, detested non phonetic spelling. He 
challenged his friends to identify the word "ghoti"  and gave the answer 
using standard English spelling and pronunciation.

Spelling was originally phonetic and one could write in dialect with no 
trouble at all. Punctuation, I believe, was also of phonetic origin-comma 
was a short silence, period a longer silence and so on.
When did all these inane grammar rules come about,  who made them up and 
why?

Best regards,

Donald Aitken

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